Brownson's Quarterly Review, Volume 2Orestes Augustus Brownson Benjamin H. Greene, 1848 - American essays |
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Page 333 - The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity : Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew: The conscious stone to beauty grew.
Page 60 - I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the prudence of the prudent will I reject. Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world?
Page 259 - He that will save his life shall lose it, and he that will lose his life for my sake shall find it
Page 58 - If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.
Page 61 - And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
Page 427 - The first proof, therefore, that the doctrine of infallibility " leads to skepticism," must be abandoned, as having no foundation for itself. 2. The second proof is no better. That certain infidel or paganizing philosophers, in the latter part of the fifteenth and early part of the sixteenth century, maintained that propositions may be philosophically true, yet theologically false, we concede ; that this was the doctrine of the Schoolmen, or that it was ever for a moment countenanced by the Church,...
Page 472 - For indeed, to say it in a word, in those days there was no King in Israel, and every man did that which was right in his own eyes, f Such things has an august National Assembly to hear of, as it goes on regenerating France.
Page 60 - Amen I say to you, unless you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Page 258 - Seek ye therefore first the Kingdom of God and His justice, and all these things shall be added unto you.
Page 42 - What, then, binds him? The authority of the Synod of London, which asserts that fact ? If so, he makes the synod authoritative, and, therefore, must prove it is the Catholic Church that speaks in it, before he can allege it, or allege, that, in believing on its authority the ancient creed, his faith is that of the Catholic Church at the end of the Fourth General Council. He must, then, prove his church to be the Catholic Church, before he can claim the vantage-ground of which he speaks. Finally,...